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Bob Dylan is one of the most important--and most enigmatic--popular artists of the twentieth century. For over thirty years, his work has deeply influenced contemporary culture and society and he has become an international cultural icon and a talismanic figure for several generations. Among his numerous awards, he has received an honorary degree from Princeton University and the Commandeur des Artes et des Lettres, the highest cultural award that France presents to foreigners. In 1997, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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May 22, 2001 | Bob Dylan's twilight is an iconoclastic one, but a twilight nonetheless. Agreeably, he appears on the awards shows, blinking like Ishi. He says something inscrutable and wanders away again. Examine his career of the past 20 years or so, and you can be repelled at the stridency, the carelessness. See him in concert, and you may be greeted with a compelling performance -- or an indifferent one.
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[One] incident that was widely regarded as one of the most important in Bob Dylans "War against bear-affectionism", was the one later named "Bearicane". It is said that Bob Dylan stumbled in to a bar one late night in the 60s, and in his craze, he thought it filled with bears. He pulled out his silver bear-killing shotgun and saved the bar from the ferocious beasts. When he realized the bar was a hunting tavern and he had slain companions of his own bearslaying tour, he called the police on the bear-loving negro Rubin Carter. This whole affair won Bob Dylan a few millions of dollars and the award Female Racist of the Year.
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The whimsical Bob Dylan narrative "I'm Not There," featuring Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and four others playing incarnations of the enigmatic singer, led nominees Tuesday for the Spirit Awards honoring independent film. "I'm Not There" was nominated for best feature;...
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Neil Young constitutes with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen the great triad of 'moral' voices of American popular music. As is the case with the other two, Young's art is, first and foremost, a fusion of music and words that identifies with his era's zeitgeist. Unlike the others, though, Young is unique in targeting the inner chaos of the individual that followed the outer chaos of society. While Dylan 'transfers' his era's events into a metaphysical universe, and Springsteen relates the epic sense of ordinary life, Young carries out a more complex psychological operation that, basically, bridges the idealism of the hippy communes and the neuroses of the urban population. His voice, his lyrics, his melodies and his guitar style compose a message of suffering and redemption that, at its best, transcends in hallucination, mystical vision, philosophical enlightenment, while still grounded in a context that is fundamentally a hell on earth.
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In 1963, Joan Baez had difficulty understanding Bob Dylan. She was enamored by Dylan's poetic lyrics, but was confused by the genius of Bob Dylan. His lyrics were so poetic and were SO MEANINGFUL TO HER. But Dylan didn't seem to care. Dylan was an enigma to her and the rest of her generation. Being the troubadour for the post World War II baby boomers, Dylan seemed to have tapped into the Zeitgeist of his generation.
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